Covering the second half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written.
The award winning Accabadora is an exceptional English-language debut, written with intriguing subtlety reflecting a sensual picture of local Italian life and death in villages during the 1950''s.
Kleine Verhältnisse, große Geschichte: Zwei Nachbarsfamilien in WeitwinkelaufnahmeKathrin Schmidt greift weit aus: Entlang der spannungsreichen Beziehungen der Familien Kapok und Schaechter erzählt sie von Krieg, Flucht, Teilung, Bespitzelung und neuer Freiheit – und von Liebe, Freundschaft, Schuld und Glück.
Azcar Moreno is a comedic drama laced with erotica about young woman overcomes opposition, tragedy, and her own fears to pursue her dreams, even as it seems her friendships and relationships are unraveling all around her.
Originally published in 1994, This Working-Day World is lively collection of essays presenting a social, political and cultural view of British women's lives in the period 1914-45.
To mark the centenary of the start of World War I, the Antiques Roadshow team filmed a series of specials at the Somme, where the public brought in their family's war memorabilia and photographs.
_______________________________When nine-year-old orphan Georgia James is unexpectedly fostered by the kindly Celia and her bank manager husband she can hardly believe her luck.
Greys mother dies giving birth to his sister Irene and he prays that she will be returned to him so he might protect her from the world as his father did not.
In Ryan MacDonald's stories, most no more than a page in length, we are given glimpses of a father and daughter at the zoo; an isolated man lamenting the absence of TV in his life; two young men atop a fridge at a party, drinking wine.
Is anxiety making your child's life a misery - causing problems at school, difficulties in making friends or facing new experiences, even affecting their physical health?
Hoch verschuldet sieht Madame de keinen anderen Ausweg, als ihre herzförmigen Brillantohrringe, ein Geschenk des Gatten am Tag nach der Hochzeit, zu veräußern.
An ';extraordinary first novel' about a father trying to escape the past and a son lost in a world of imaginary voiceswinner of the Mary McCarthy Prize (Booklist).
A warm-hearted story of fresh beginnings, unexpected friendships and the sustaining power of love and community, from the Top Ten bestselling author of The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle and Thursdays at Orange Blossom House.
